WASHINGTON – Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and Democratic Congressman Darren Soto have joined forces in a bipartisan effort to make it easier for ill-patients and scientific and medical researchers to obtain marijuana. The proposed legislation, “to provide for the rescheduling of marijuana into schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act”, is aimed at rescheduling marijuana […]
A room full of people turned out to the Hammon Senior Center Tuesday night for a workshop on how the city should respond to the passage of Proposition 64, which legalized personal cultivation and recreational use of marijuana in the state. Source: City holds first marijuana workshop – Golden State Newspapers: Patterson Irrigator News […]
Delaware took a major step Thursday toward becoming the ninth state to legalize recreational marijuana use. Delaware legislation would also authorize dozens of stores to sell marijuana. “We see it as a social justice issue,” Henry said, describing the legislation as an effort to reform the criminal justice system by legalizing “something that people always have […]
New legislation introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, both Oregon Democrats, would take marijuana off the list of federally banned drugs, tax marijuana at a rate similar to alcohol and tobacco, and end the threat of federal criminal penalties for businesses operating in states that allow the use of pot for recreational […]
Georgia House lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a compromise that would expand the list of disorders eligible for treatment under the state’s nascent medical marijuana program. Source: Georgia House approves compromise to expand medical marijuana program By a vote of 45 to 6, Senators approved a revised version of Senate Bill 16, now awaiting the Gov. Nathan Deal’s signature. […]
Last year, Nashville voted to decriminalize marijuana. According to the Associated Press: “The Legislature has passed a bill that would bar cities in Tennessee from decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. If the governor signs the bill, it will strike down laws in Memphis and Nashville that give police the discretion to write civil […]
The newest Gallup poll shows 60% of Americans support full legalization of marijuana. More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2015 and heroin overdoses rose by 23% in one year. Jeff Sessions says marijuana is only “slightly worse” than heroin. However, no one has ever overdosed, or died, as a direct result of using […]
A new analysis projects that the legal marijuana market in Massachusetts will generate $64 million in state tax revenue in its first year. Retail marijuana sales are now slated to begin on July 1, 2018 after lawmakers pushed the date out by six months to allow for more time to establish regulations. The law, approved by 54 […]
Source: American Vice: Black Market Marijuana – Facts and Figures
Ohio’s new law on medical marijuana prohibits private laboratories from testing medical marijuana’s properties for one year. No other state tests medical marijuana like this, because university officials are way of losing federal money. Source: Testing could stall access to medical marijuana in Ohio
